OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  bone; seed.

Note: KOR, MEN, WAI, BNG, BAH, TOM: fuku ‘bone, seed’; all others except KOD and MEK: wuku ‘bone’ and/or ‘seed’. Usually both meanings are attested, except for Taloki and Kulisusu which have wuku ‘bone’ but oliso ‘seed’; Rahambuu which has wuku ‘bone’ but watu ‘seed’; and the Lalomerui dialect of Waru which has wuku ‘seed’ but to'ola ‘bone’. [PMP *buku ‘node, joint, knuckle’ (Dempwolff, in Zorc 1971 1102)]